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Newswire | Orchestre classique de Montréal features stars of tomorrow in Mozart’s Requiem

By Newswire on 15 April 2024 Classical Music, Montreal, Newswire, Opera, Vocal

Montreal, April 15, 2024 – The Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM) presents Mozart’s celebrated Requiem, conducted by Jacques Lacombe, with 150 Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal (PCMR) and four wonderful soloists from the Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra de Montréal. The concert will be presented at the Maison Symphonique on Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 p.m. Pre-concert Benefit Event: Fundraiser “Petit Mozart” for Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal present a benefit event “Petit Mozart”: a pre-concert reception at 1:00 p.m. on May 5, sponsored by Desjardins, full of color and flavor. The event promises a surprise…

Douglas Williams (Golaud) & Meghan Lindsay (Mélisande) in Opera Atelier's All is Love. Photo: Bruce Zinger

Concert Review | Beautiful parts fail to add up to a dramatic whole in Opera Atelier All is Love

By Gianmarco Segato on 12 April 2024 Baroque and Early, City, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

All is Love, the new Opera Atelier production is a heterogeneous mix of numbers that impress individually but fail to add up to a dramatically satisfying whole.

CD Review | La Flambeau (Atma Classique, 2024)

By Gianmarco Segato on 29 March 2024 CD and Book Reviews, Opera

Composed by Haitian-born, Montreal-based David Bontemps, who also adapted fellow Haitian Flaubert Bolivar’s award-winning play, La Flambeau draws its subject matter from a rich mythology based in Haitian Vodou traditions.

Michael Spyres (Lohengrin, left) and Johanni van Oostrum (Elsa, right) in Opéra national du Rhin's Lohengrin (Photo by Klara Beck)

Michael Spyres: Wagner in Context

By Gianmarco Segato on 29 March 2024 Opera

The latest recording by American tenor Michael Spyres, In the Shadows, exemplifies just what makes him stand out in the current hype-driven, Instagram-heavy opera landscape.

Mishka Lavigne (left) and Tim Brady (right) (Photos provided)

Mishka Lavigne: Librettist to Tim Brady’s Information

By Justin Bernard on 29 March 2024 Montreal, Opera, Quebec Music

On the heels of Backstage at Carnegie Hall, composer Tim Brady pursues his journey into the world of opera with Information, the second instalment in a cycle of four entitled Hope.

Pene Pati (Photo by Bruno Tocaben)

Pene Pati: From YouTube to the Metropolitan Opera

By Adrian Rodriguez on 29 March 2024 Montreal, Opera

Pene Pati made time to sit down with La Scena Musicale while in Bordeaux, France, set to perform a concert at the Opéra national de Bordeaux the following day.

Newswire | Musique 3 Femmes, behind Mécénat Musica’s “Prix 3 Femmes”, presents its Digital Opera Now Festival

By Newswire on 28 March 2024 Classical Music, Montreal, Opera

Montréal, March 28 2024 – Since 2018, Montreal opera creation company Musique 3 Femmes has been creating, developing and producing new operas by female composers and librettists. After nearly 6 years of existence, the company has now created 12 new chamber operas. Support for this was provided by the Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes and various arts councils and foundations. Pandemic arts council funding afforded us the opportunity to transform four of these operas into films. Created by Iranian-Canadian duo Parisa Sabet and Nika Khanjani, the exquisite opera film Vanishing Point was recently premiered at the International Festival for Films…

Karoline Podolak (Photo from Karoline Podolak's website)

Newswire | Canadian Soprano Karoline Podolak Signed to Intermusica

By Newswire on 21 March 2024 Arts Industry, Newswire, Opera

Intermusica takes great pleasure in announcing the signing of Polish-Canadian soprano Karoline Podolak for worldwide general management.

Chihiro Yasufuku (Dorothée), Jordana Goddard (Noémie), Kcenia Koutorjevski (Madame de la Haltière) and Ellita Gagner (Lucette) in UofT Opera's Cendrillon. Photo: Richard Lu

Review | UofT Opera delivers a sumptuous Busby Berkeley Cendrillon at Toronto’s Elgin Theatre

By Gianmarco Segato on 15 March 2024 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

UofT Opera opened a sparkling new production of Massenet’s Cendrillon on March 15 at Toronto’s historic, neo-Baroque Elgin Theatre, the perfect setting for director Maria Lamont’s 1930s Busby Berkeley-inspired conception. Massenet’s 1899 version of the familiar Cinderella fairy tale, while not without its Belle Epoque froth, is also lined with a deeply moving vein of melancholy that was successfully brought to the fore by a promising band of student artists. The Elgin’s acoustic is notoriously dry, and so it was perhaps fortuitous that conductor Sandra Horst elected to reduce the size of Massenet’s original orchestration, especially given the lack of…

Michael Cavanagh (1961-2024)

By Gianmarco Segato on 13 March 2024 Arts Industry, Obituaries, Opera

Renowned Canadian opera director Michael Cavanagh has passed away suddenly at the age of 62. Cavanagh was one of Canada’s most prolific and sought-after opera directors who in 2020 was appointed Artistic Director of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. Cavanagh directed over 150 opera productions at 32 companies in Canada, U.S. and Europe. He had a particularly close relationship with San Francisco Opera where most recently, he directed new productions of their Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy: Le nozze di Figaro (2019), Così fan tutte (2021) and Don Giovanni (2022). Previous to his appointment in Stockholm, he directed high profile productions…

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